Kitchener’s Jamal Murray and Denver Nuggets are NBA champions

The Denver Nuggets refused to give up on Jamal Murray on his long and difficult rehabilitation after knee surgery: no knee-jerk reaction to a tough break, no resets, no trades, no panic. Just organizational patience and poise in the knowledge that when Murray got all the way back, anything was possible. Anything became something special in Denver on Monday night, when Murray and the Nuggets captured the NBA championship with a 94-89 win over the Miami Heat to win the series in five games. It was the first championship in the 47-year NBA history of the Nuggets franchise. Jokic, Murray and Gordon all battled foul trouble and Denver was an abysmal 1-for-15 from three-point range in the first half.